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Catching up

Sorry to be absent without explanation for a couple of days there. I was struck down by a nasty bug.

Here’s a quick catch-up on some news of note:
On Tuesday, Boeing Commercial Airplanes marketing chief Randy Tinseth posted the photo shown above of the first 787 Dreamliner and 747-8 Intercontinental flight test airplanes flying in formation over Washington last week. Boeing plans to start selling posters of the picture soon, Tinseth said.

Boeing Monday said it has achieved qualifications for its worldwide network of 787 training campuses from customer airlines’ home country regulators, clearing the way to start training.

The campuses are in Seattle, Singapore, Tokyo, London Gatwick and Shanghai. They received qualifications from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, UK Civil Aviation Authority on behalf of the European Aviation Safety Agency, Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau and the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

“By bringing this cutting-edge training directly to airlines in the regions of the world where they’re based and serve their passengers, we’re offering our customers the flexibility and efficiency of flight crew training where they need it, when they need it,” Sherry Carbary, vice president, Boeing Flight Services, said in a news release.

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